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  2. Yiddish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Yiddish orthography is the writing system used for the Yiddish language. It includes Yiddish spelling rules and the Hebrew script , which is used as the basis of a full vocalic alphabet . Letters that are silent or represent glottal stops in the Hebrew language are used as vowels in Yiddish.

  3. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.

  4. Yiddish - Wikipedia

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    Yiddish, [a] historically Judeo-German, [11] [b] is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.It originated in 9th-century [12]: 2 Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with many elements taken from Hebrew (notably Mishnaic) and to some extent Aramaic.

  5. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems are used to record human language, and may be classified according to certain common features.. The usual name of the script is given first; the name of the languages in which the script is written follows (in brackets), particularly in the case where the language name differs from the script name.

  6. Tsade - Wikipedia

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    The corresponding letter of the Ugaritic alphabet is 𐎕 ášŖade. The letter is named " tsadek " in Yiddish, [ 1 ] and Hebrew speakers often give it a similar name as well. This name for the letter probably originated from a fast recitation of the alphabet (i.e., " tsadi , qoph " → " tsadiq , qoph "), influenced by the Hebrew word tzadik ...

  7. Yodh - Wikipedia

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    In Yiddish, [7] the letter yod is used for several orthographic purposes in native words: Alone, a single yod י may represent the vowel or the consonant . When adjacent to another vowel, or another yod, may be distinguished from by the addition of a dot below. Thus the word Yidish 'Yiddish' is spelled ייִדיש.

  8. Hebrew (Unicode block) - Wikipedia

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    Yiddish: Assigned: 88 code points: ... Hebrew is a Unicode block containing characters for writing the Hebrew, Yiddish, ... Hebrew alphabet in Unicode;

  9. Wikipedia:Language recognition chart - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali alphabet or Bangla alphabet (Bengali: āĻŦāĻžāĻ‚āĻ˛āĻž āĻŦāĻ°ā§āĻŖāĻŽāĻžāĻ˛āĻž, bangla bôrnômala) or Bengali script (Bengali: āĻŦāĻžāĻ‚āĻ˛āĻž āĻ˛āĻŋāĻĒāĻŋ, bangla lipi) is the writing system, originating in the Indian subcontinent, for the Bengali language and is the fifth most widely used writing system in the world.